1. Two and a Half Men studios fires Charlie Sheen

2. Ongoing battle bewtween Sheen and companies that produce sitcom

3. Sheen announced it as "very good news"

4. Told electronically over text

5. Sheen insists drug-alcohol related behavior had no interference with show

1. Insists he hit every mark and note to a full house audience

2. Admits he missed practice but, practice is "for amatuers"

3. Warner Bros letter's deny Sheen's brillliance on show

4. Difficulty remembering marks and hitting notes

5. Caused tensions on set

1. Sheen would come to work without having slept the night before, causing the set to be re arranged so he could lean against furniture for rest

2. Sheen has called show creator Chuck Lorre a "turd" and a "clown," among other names

3. Mocked his Jewish heritage as well, calling him by his hebrew name

4. Sheen is not entitled to payment for episodes cancelled due to his conduct and condition

5. Decision of Sheen returning to Two and a Half Men is undecided

1. Sheen's contract with Warner Bros ends at the end of 2012

2. Lawsuit to dispute his return to Two and a Half Men

1. voluntarily entered undisclosed rehabilitation center on Jan. 28 2011

2. Production of Two and a Half Men season 8 on halt

3. Night before entering rehab, Sheen was rushed to the hospital for severe abdominal pains

4. Pains caused by a hernia followed by a night of heavy drinking and partying

1. Sheen is the laughing stock of the entertainment world

2. However, he remains a very powerful player in the industry

3. Film career faded some time ago

4. Thanks to Two and a Half Men, Sheen is worlds highest paid sitcom actor

5. Late 2009: charged and arrested

1. domestic violence against 3rd wife

2. held knife to her throat and threatened her

3. week-long media circus of Sheen attacking everything AA to co-creator Chuck Lorre

4. after careful consideration, televison terminated Charlie's services with Two and a Half Men

5. news came a week and a half after producers halted the rest of season 8

1. decided to discontinue production due to Sheen's actions

2. since being fired, Sheen launched twitter account

3. more than 2 million followers

4. gone on media blitz, criticizing Lorre and other execs

5. throughout press tour, Sheen has remained optimistic about returning to THM

1. in it's eighth season, THM is most watched comedy on television

2. averaging 14.7 million viewers

3. second only to ABC's Modern Family

1. CBS sells 30 second spots on THM for $200,000

2. generates more than $3 million per episode

3. Kantar Media reports that show grossed more CBS more than $155 million in ad revenue last season alone

1. Sheen attempted to have sex with porn star date in restaurant bathroom

2. Sheen dropped his pants in the bathroom at Daniel after convincing Capri Anderson to join him

3. she bolted in a dispute over a promised yet unpaid $12,000 fee for the night on the town

1. Sheen's nerovus assistant went to rescure alcohol-addled actor from the bathroom

2. found him nude

3. blow on his face

1. returned to his suite, then smoked cocaine

2. Sheen then flew into an incoherent rage

3. anger due to bisexual Bronx-raised beauty refused to have sex with him unless the $12,000

4. began tossing furniture around the suite

5. by the time cops came, Sheen was naked and frothing

1. spewing vile stream of racial slurs as he trashed a hotel suite

2. repeatedly screamed N-word and punched walls of his $1,000-a night suite at the plaza

3. as Anderson cowered naked in bathroom, Sheen inflicted $7,000 in damage on 18th floor

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1. "Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh."

2."For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view."

1. "From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either in my corner, or you're with the trolls."

2. "I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen."

1. "I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man."

2. "I have defeated this earth worm with my words,. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."

1. "I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer-I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero."

2. "I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time-and this includes naps-I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground."

1. Born Carlos Irwin Estevez in NYC, 1974

2. First movie appearance at age 8 in father's movie The Execution of Private Slovik

1. Santa Monica Highschool; starpitcher and shortstop for HS baseball team

2. Made amateur films with brother Emelio and friends Rob Lowe and Sean Penn

1. Few weeks before graduation, Sheen expelled for poor grades and attendance record

2. Decided then to become an actor

1. Film career began in 1984

2. Red Dawn, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Platoon, Wallstreet, Eight Men Out, Young Guns, No Code of Conduct, Scary Movie 3 & 4, etc.

1. 2003: cast in CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (character loosely based off of Sheen's bad boy image)

2. 2011: new Guiness World record="Fastest Time to Reach One Million Followers on Twitter"